Sometimes inaction is the best way to go through life. A Scottish man serving a 4 year sentence desperately wanted to see his girlfriend after a couple of years in jail. He escaped and then showed up on her doorstep.

Gary Stephen realised partner Tracy Miller was pregnant with another man’s child before he phoned police and asked to taken back to the jail. The 35-year-old, from Kirkcaldy, Fife, admitted absconding from Castle Huntly prison, near Dundee, on 19 November. At Perth Sheriff Court, Stephen had 20 days added to his sentence. via the BBC NEWS

You wonder what the judge was saying to himself when he gave down this verdict.